<div class="doc-item" id="doc-754"><h2 class="doc-item-name">defsymbolmacro<span class="namespace">(clojure.contrib.macro-utils)</span></h2><p class="macro">Macro</p><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">defsymbolmacro</span> symbol expansion)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Define a symbol macro. Because symbol macros are not part of
   Clojure's built-in macro expansion system, they can be used only
   inside a with-symbol-macros form.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/contrib/macro_utils.clj:200
(defmacro defsymbolmacro
  [symbol expansion]
  (let [meta-map (if (meta symbol) (meta symbol) {})
	meta-map (assoc meta-map :symbol-macro true)]
  `(def ~(with-meta symbol meta-map) (quote ~expansion))))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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